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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, was not read his Miranda rights until a few days after he was arrested. Here are two excellent articles which explain the origin of this exception, why it is a dangerous idea, and how the Obama administration has expanded this exception.
By Emily [...]
“The Case Against Cronies: Libertarians Must Stand Up to Corporate Greed. It’s time for a free-market corporate social responsibility. Conservatives who rail against government hand-outs should also blast companies who seek shelter from Washington.” Timothy Carney at The Atlantic.
(Note that the old blog post of mine quoted there was a musing [...]
Bryan Caplan doesn’t think he has a moral duty to help the poor. I disagree.
But, duty or no, Bryan wants to help them anyway. And he wants your help to do so more effectively.
So, my resourceful readers, let’s help Bryan channel his bleeding heart to maximum utility!
Eric Mack’s review of Gerald Gaus’ The Order of Public Reason (See also Mack’s earlier comments at Cato Unbound) The video of my recent debate with Debra Satz on the moral limits of markets is now online. Robert Taylor – “Market Freedom as Antipower“
Jeppe von Platz (Suffolk University) has a new paper entitled “Are Economic Liberties Basic Rights?”, available Online First at Politics, Philosophy, and Economics:
In this essay I discuss a powerful challenge to high-liberalism: the challenge presented by neoclassical liberals that the high-liberal assumptions and values imply that the full range of economic liberties are [...]
Last week, I argued at Libertarianism.org that the Non-Aggression Principle has unacceptable implications for the issue of pollution.
This week, I adduce five more reasons why libertarians should reject the Non-Aggression Principle.
The basic problem with the NAP is its absolutist and single-minded focus on aggression as the defining [...]
Over at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Lisa Herzog has written a very nice entry on “markets” that will likely be of interest to readers of this blog. In particular, section three provides a very helpful overview of some of the most common and influential arguments for and against markets. [...]
Libertarians often claim that a just price is whatever people are willing to pay in the absence of force or fraud. So, if sweatshop workers are willing to sell their labor for close to subsistence wages, that’s fair as long as no one lied to them about the terms of their employment or held a [...]
Fans of BHL’s debates over social justice should find the discussion of the same topic in the Liberty Forum on the Online Library of Law and Liberty worth reading.
With an initial essay by Sam Gregg of the Acton Institute, and responses by Eric Mack and David Rose, the discussion should [...]
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